In her post last December, Nancy King published this piece of art "in defense of bloggers," but it's just as applicable to creativity.
The act of “combining” (which I jokingly refer to as “combinotics”) is an essential element of creative thought. To merge your need, problem or issue with another an unrelated idea, concept, notion. I love too the quote from Goddard: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
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